Liberty Retail Revolution Ltd

A: Liberty Retail Revolutions: We designed the supply chain to deal separately with continuous selling items and new introductions. For the continuous selling items, we moved away from six month confirmed booking system to pull based replenishment from a central warehouse. We also decided to sell and dispatch shoes in cut sizes and not in full size rolls. Shoes were dispatched based on consumption from stores. New products were introduced more frequently and in smaller lots. We are controlling range at nearly 60 percent of that held previously.

A: Liberty Retail Revolutions: The challenge was in shifting from booking orders to a replenishment system, and in frequent new product introduction. Buyers had to be dissuaded from ordering in large quantities, and convinced to let the system manage the replenishment on its own. The other one was to change the production mindset from expecting large ‘confirmed’ orders to delivering small lots as per consumption. Continuous handholding by Vector helped.